
- 556 pages
- English
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Chitosan in Drug Delivery
About this book
Chitosan in Drug Delivery provides thorough insights into chitosan chemistry, collection, chemical modifications, characterization and applications in the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare fields. The book explores molecular weight, degree of deacetylation and molecular geometry, emphasizing recent advances in the field as written by academic, industry and regulatory scientists. It will be a useful resource for pharmaceutical scientists, including industrial pharmacists, analytical scientists, postgraduate students, health care professionals and regulatory scientists actively involved in pharmaceutical product and process development in natural polymers containing drug delivery.- Provides methodologies for the design, development and selection of chitosan in drug delivery for particular therapeutic applications- Includes illustrations demonstrating the mechanism of biological interaction of chitosan- Discusses the regulatory aspects and demonstrates the clinical efficacy of chitosan
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Table of contents
- Title of Book
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Chitosan: source, chemistry, and properties
- Chapter 2 Chitosan-based systems for oral drug delivery applications
- Chapter 3 Chitosan-based nanoparticles in drug delivery
- Chapter 4 Role of chitosan in transdermal drug delivery
- Chapter 5 Chitosan in colon-targeted drug delivery
- Chapter 6 Chitosan as a biomaterial for implantable drug delivery
- Chapter 7 Chitosan-based drug delivery systems in cancer therapeutics
- Chapter 8 In situ gelling systems of chitosan for potential drug delivery applications
- Chapter 9 Chitosan as mucoadhesive polymer in drug delivery
- Chapter 10 Thiolated chitosan as an improved bioadhesive polymer in drug delivery
- Chapter 11 Cross-linking of chitosan in drug delivery
- Chapter 12 Graft copolymers of chitosan in drug delivery applications
- Chapter 13 Carboxymethyl chitosan in advanced drug-delivery applications
- Chapter 14 Chitosan-based hydrogels in drug delivery
- Chapter 15 Chitosan as a responsive biopolymer in drug delivery
- Chapter 16 Chitosan-based nanobiocomposites in drug delivery
- Chapter 17 Chitosan for delivery of biomolecules
- Chapter 18 Novel chitosan-based strategies for insulin nanoencapsulation
- Chapter 19 Chemically modified chitosan for biomolecule delivery
- Index